Napkin-holder.



PATENTED JULY 21, 1903.

L. R. LB LANDB.

NAPKIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 0011s. 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 21, 1903.

LESTER R. LANDE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

NAPKlN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 734,342, dated. July 21, 1903. Application filed October 13; 1902. Serial No. 127,042. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LESTER R. LE LANDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Napkin-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved map kin-holder, the object of my invention being to provide a cheap and simple device of this character which will hold a napkin, towel, or other cloth more securely than with prior forms of devices.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device with the tongue raised. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device in use.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the frame of the device is made of wire and consists of the upper and lower ends 1 2 and the sides 3. Said sides 3 make about two-thirds of the way up a complete bond 4,

'forming ears for the insertion of the bent said tongue also has its end straight in the middle and for the greater portion of its length and is in said portion parallel to the end 2 of the frame and lies close to the same when closed; but said tongue has its lower corners 8 projecting downwardly below the said middle portion. This causes the cloth to be bent backward at a sharper angle around said corners than around said middle portion, so that said corners hold the cloth very securely in position. At the same time the substantially straight ends of the frame and of the tongue prevent the cloth from wrinkling or bnnching up, so that it lies smoothly over the holder without forming a knot.

I claim- I 1. The holder comprising the frame having the ears sloped upward-and inward and having the tongue formed of spring-wire with bent ends entering said ears from the inside, substantially as described.

2. The holder comprising the frame and the tonguepivoted to said frame, said frame being substantially straight at its lower end from one side to the other and said tongue having its end also substantially straight in the middle and for the greater portion of its length and parallel and close to the end of the frame when closed, but having its lower corners projecting downward below the said middle portion, causing" the cloth tobe bent back at 'a sharper angle around said corners than around said middle portion, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

L. R. LE LANDE.

Witnesses:

BESSIE GOEFINKEL,

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT. 

